LifePath Entry
Slideshow/Gallery
Looking Back
- Born August 1955
- Visiting KinFolk
- Blue Ribbon - Wild Pony Chase
- Road trip down to Virginia City
- The LADDER
- A stint of BackPacking
- Mentor - Cuz Ken
- Fischer
- Goodbye Paris Gibson
- BigHoo
- Charcoal Job
- LittleHoo
- Society for Creative Anachronism
- Revolver blow-up
- Canoeing
- Married Sandee
- Starting Married Life
- Bought our House - Outright!
- Wess
- Sandee's Death
- Married Lorita
- Addition finally Done
- Death of Cuz
- May Varmint Hunts
- Coast Anniversarys
- River Boat in Salem
- Peterson Reunion
- Fischer still around
- Shooting
- Vegas
Looking Forward
The LADDER
Great Falls, Montana
1967
I had just been punished at school for doing something my Mother had instructed me to do. (pushed a bully back) I WAS ABSOLUTELY LIVID! Resolved to get revenge on the responsible party - but who was the guilty one? The teacher? Maw? I sat down on this ladder and resolved not to get up until I had the answer. But as I ruminated on this question of responsibility; I found it lead me into a profound realization. I was inescapably responsible for everything in my life. Further rumination disclosed that I had built my entire world view on assumptions. I actually knew nothing except that I existed. (Discovered Descartes "I think therefore I am") I was mortified and scared. But I knew the truth. I felt it's freedom and was awed by it. I had sat on this ladder as an angry child but, to a great degree, arose from it a man.
